How does one get to the runway at Indira Gandhi International Airport?

Buy a ticket for a plane journey, check in, and between getting off the bus that takes passengers to their waiting aircraft, their feet will briefly make contact with a peripheral part of runway.

Or you could scale the airport boundary wall to get on the runway, despite the high security with fancy labels like anti-intruder system.

1. A 16-year-old boy scaled the IGI Airport boundary
near Kapashera Crossing at around 4.50 am

That's exactly what a 16-year-old runaway boy did on Wednesday morning, scaling the airport wall and taking an unchallenged half-hour morning jog along an active runway.

It's all captured on CCTV, from the moment the boy climbed inside the airport near the Kapashera crossing on the road leading from National Highway 8 to Dwarka at around 4.50 am.

The boy kept running until he was spotted by personnel near the runway (29/11) who were engaged in the task of scaring away birds.

The bird-watchers informed a "follow-me" vehicle which is used to guide taxiing aircraft to the apron.

The vehicle picked up the boy and shifted him to control room where he was interrogated.

2. The teenager took a half-hour-long jog along an active runway
before he was spotted by airport bird-watchers

The questioning revealed the boy is mentally challenged but he managed to give some details about his family which was then contacted. The boy's father was called to the airport; he was unaware of the boy not being at home.

The last time he had seen his son in the house was at 11 pm on Tuesday, the father said. The boy and his father were let off without any charges being pressed. The damage had been done, however.

First, the boy managed to evade the much tom-tommed Perimeter Intrusion Detection System. Second, despite being caught on the CCTV, the guards belonging to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) did not react.

3. The teenager was then taken to the control room in a
'follow-me' car for interrogation

Third, it was support staffers near the runway who spotted the boy and took him away in a "follow-me" van.

Fourth, the intruder was interrogated by the support staff by itself before the CISF was informed.

And finally, the matter was brought to the notice of the Delhi Police, six hours after the incident.